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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

The pecuniary value of "a good time'
would seem to be as difficult of estima-
tion as the weight of an odor OF the
breadth of a smile. Yet New York
jury will be called on to perform the deli
cate task. The City Surveyor of Roch-
ester was invited to be present at the un-
yelling of the Statue of Liberty in New
York Harbor and laid himself out for a
good time. The train which he took
should have brought him to New York
in ample time, but for some reason it ar
rived six hours late and the good time
was irretrievably spoiled. The Surveyor
has sued the railroad company and laid
his damages at $1,000, which is his cs-
mate of what good time would have
been worth to him in the elevation of his
spirits, the rejuvenescence of his system,
the expansion of his ideas and, incident
ally perhaps, of his head as we'll.
Whether jury will put it as high as that
is still problematic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
A YOUTHFUL MURDERER.
A Boy Kills q Farmer and Shoots
His Wife and Two Children.

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His Wife and Two Children.
News of terrible tragedy comes from
lonely farming community on Cats Fork,
Lawrence County, Ky. Sam Smith, lad OF
sixteen, had q difficulty with Steve Ham
mond, neghboring farmer. Smith, armed
with n revolver, went to the Hammond house,
and, after some words with Hammond, fol-
lowed him in the house. Hammond reached
for his rifle. when young Smith fired, killing
him instantly. Smith was then attacked by
Hammonds wife, daughter and son, the lat,
ter little moro than children. Tho youthful
murderer backed up against the side Of the
room and fired three balls into Mrs. Lam
monds body, inilicting fatal wounds AS the
woman dropped to tho floor by the side OF her
dead husband, Smith leaped over her pros
tr;tte form and fired ut the boy and girl who
were retrcating through door, two balls
taking effect in the daughter and ono i'll the
son. Both of them fell, and satisfied that his
work was done and that no witnesses were
left to tell OF the awful butchery, the mul'-
derer fled to the mountains. it was hours
afterward before leighbors discovered the
crime, their attention being attracted by the
feeble cries of the boy Mrs Hammond was
mortally wounded, and her children were IL
little better condition. The boy made his es-
cape at the time, but was pursued, with little
doubt Of his ultimate canturc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

Henry Ward Beecher, the famous clergy
man, was stricken with apoplexy on the 5th
inst, at his home in Brooklyn. The apoplec-
ticstroke was followed by partial paralysis.
The doctors pronounced the case a hopeless
one. Mr. Beecher had been Ill since
Thursday, the Sd. Saturday morn
ing the sudden change for the worse
took place. 1t was of such an alarming char
acter that DR.. VIM. A. Hammond, of New
York, was hastily summoned. He and
DR.. Searle made an examination and
declared that Mr.. Beecher was suffer-
ing from an apoplectic attack.
He lay in semi-comatose condition, but was
reused by the efforts of the doctors, Neither
consciousness nor his unfailing sense of hui
NOR had quite forsaken him.
"Can you raise your arm, MIR. Beecher"
asked DR.. Hammond.
Eyes, guess So" came thu low reply.
"How high can you raise itI"
"Well, high enough to hit you, DOCTOR"
said the clergyman with feeble smile.
He did not seem to be suffering any pain.
When approached by Mrs. Beecher and other
members of the family he looked up as though
he recognized them and knew what was going
on. SOlOnel WlulaIl ~. DeeCueT, Ills SUI,
asked him about noon If he knew what the
doctors were doing.
"Oh, yes,n he replied. "they are trying to
make out if am going to get well or not"
All the family were summoned to the dying
minister's bedside, and crowds of his friends
and members of his congregation hocked to
his house. On Sunday the paralysis resulting
from his apoplectic stroke grew more and
more complete, and the doctors said then that
there was absolutely no hope of his recovery.
All through Monday the dying man lay in
a comatose condition, breathing easily but
recognizing no one. Bulletins conveying in
telligence of his condition were posted at the
doorway of his residence, and were eagerly
scanned by hundreds of anxious friends and
members of the congregation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
TRADE DOLLARS.
A Treasury Department Circular
Regarding their Redemption. z

A Treasury Department Circular
Regarding their Redemption. {
The United States Treasury Department
has issued circular to holders of trade
dollars. Trade dollars, if not defaced, mutt
lated or stamped, will be redeemed or ex-
changed at the offices Of the Treasurer and.
Assistant Treasurers Requests for re-
demption stating the amount held should be
forwarded to the above named officers, who
will file applications and notify holders in
their turn when presentation may be made
and payment obtained Such notification
will be held to be sufficient presentation OF
the coins, and will entitle the holders to de-
posit such coins in the respective Sub
Treasures on or before August l, 1887 The
coins may be forwarded by express or other
wise, transportation charges being prepaid,
when receipts will be issued for the amounts
purporting to be contained in the deposits.
PAYMENT will be made in standard silver
dollars, or in fractional silver coin, at the
option Of the holder. Defaeed, mutilated or
stamped trade dollars will not be redeemed or
exchanged.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

SEVERAL attempts have been made to de-
stroy property Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company at Jersey City, N. j., by internal
machines.
A CROWD of boys in the yard of church
at Pittsburg were fooling with flask Of pow
der when it suddenly exploded, having come
In contact with lighted match. Ten boys
were more or less badly burned.
CHARLES J. PETERSON, founder and pub
Usher of Peterson's Magazine, died the other
day in Philadelphia, aged sixty y-eight years.
A FIRE in New York burned out the Weekly
story paper and other publishers and printers,
causing total estimated loss Of 100000.
AN explosion of 600 pounds Of nitro-glyce-
rine at the Ditmar Dynamite Works, Bay
chester, N. Y, killed Henry Bahr, watch
man, demolished building, and shook the
earth for miles around.
A scAFFoLD at a new building in Reading,
Penn, fell thirty feet, carrying down fifteen
were badly hurt.
LARGE numbers of trade dollars are being
redeemed by the Treasury Department in
New York and Philadelphia at par in &C
cordance with the new law.
A NEGRO named Alexander Crawford was
taken from jail and lynched at Winona, Miss,
for the murder of Victor Loggins, young
merchant of that town.
THE Rhode Island Democrats in State Con-
vention at Providence on Tuesday nominated
ticket headed by John W. Davis for Cover
nor. The election takes place April 6, and
besides State officers a member Of Congress
to fill the vacancy in the Second District will
be chosen.
PRESIDENT GARRETT is reported to have
sold his interest in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to Alfred Sully, representing syn
dicate which comprises the Reading, Jersey
Central, and Richmond Terminal Railroads,
the intention being to combine all these prop
critics into one grand trunk line, with 1900
miles of track. This is the greatest railroad
deal that has taken place in this country in
many years
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

A bill recently passed the Tennessee
Senate granting pension of ten dollars
q month to Confederate and Federal SOL
diers who have lost the use of their eyes.
In the House it was amended, the amount
being increased to twenty-five dollars q
month and made available to those who
lost both legs or both arms, or the use OF
them, while engaged in active service in
either the Union or Confederate armies,
and who do not receive pension from
the Federal government.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

In Germany long troughs are placed at
the caves of houses for the accommoda-
dation of sparrows in building their nests.
When the young sparrows are Matched
and the mother goes out to procure food
for them, wire screens arc placed over
them, with interstices large enough to
permit the passage of food In to the
younglings, but too small to allow them
to escape from the nests. As soon as they
have grown large and plump they are
killed, and they make very desirable
article of food.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

The four daughters of Ignatius Riggin,
of Madison County, Illinois, not only
make their own dresses and other cloth
ing, but spin and weave the cloth OF
which they are made from raw cotton and
wool. Mr. Riggin is rich man, rated
worth ss5O,OOO, and his daughters arc
pretty, intelligent, and accomplished.
They live luxuriously in handsome
house, expensivcly and tastefully fur
nishcd. Homemade clothing is the
fathers hobby, and the girls scnsibly in
dulre him In it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
WATERY GRAVES,
Six Persons in Boat, and Two in
Carriage Drowned.

Six Persons in q Boat, and Two in
Carriage Drowned.
The tow-boat Diamond, ascending the Ohio
River few days since with tow of barges,
ran down a skiff which had just started from
Madison, Ind, for Client, Ky. The skilf con-
tained seven colored people-Harry Gross,
his three sons and two daughters and a young
man named Brown. The Skiff and its occu-
pants were swept under the entire fleet of
barges, and six of them lost their lives. John
Graham, son of the Vovay ferlyman, by
superhuman efforts succeeded in rescuing
three of the unfortunate persons but only one
survived, the other two dying from cxhaus-
ton. The bodies of the other four were not
recovered
Robert Blacker, wealthy farmer, living
near Scipio, Ind, together with his wife and
child, attempted to cross Dry Fork, near Haf
risen, Ohio. The carriage was overturned,
throwing tho occupants into the water Mrs
Blacker was rescued but Mr.. Blacker and the
child were drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

DR.. N. B. Richardson considers the
most deleterious effect of the "night-
cap" is the extra work it gives the heart.
He says: "When lie down at night
without my alcohol, that is the rest my
heart gets. But when you take youl
wine or grog you do not allow that rest,
for the influence of alcohol is to increase
the number of strokes, and, instead OF
getting this rest, you put on something
like $4,000 extra strokes, and the result
is you rise up very unfit for the next
days work till you have taken a little
more of the ':ruby bumper"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
The Final Death-Bed Scene.

Monday night was drawing to close, when
at A. NJ, DR.. Scale, the attending physician.
noticed change for the worse in the patients
condition. Those of the family and of the
closest friends who were at that hour doing
were awakened just about four o'clock,
and they, began, to group. around the
bed, on the farthest edge of which Mr..
conscious ever since the attack of paralysis
had seized him on Friday. Still, the end was
not yet, and the rapid approach of dissolution
was not noticeable until nine o'clock. Then
the scene in Mr.. Beecher's small bed-chamber
looked like this.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
House Sessions.

9th AND LAST DAY.-A resolution OF
thanks to Speaker Carlisle was adopted by a
rising vote. A disagreement was reported
on the Fertilization Appropriation BILL.
The committee appointed to wait upon
President President had no W further communication
to make to Congress. AS the hands OF the
clock finally pointed to the hour of noon, tho
Speaker rose and after thanking the members
for their resolution of thanks declared the
House adjourned sine die.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
COUNTY SEAT WAR.
A Fatal Fight in Kansas-Six Men
Killed.

A Fatal Fight in Kansas-Six Men
Killed.
A fight about local political contention at
Coronado, Wichita County, the other night,
resulted in the killing Of two men and the IA
tai wounding of four others. There has been
a bitter controversy between residents of Cor
onado and Of Leoti about the location Of the
county seat. A party of men from Leoti
went to Coronado, and during dispute over
the elections, Charles Cotter, from Leoti,
struck Frank LiIleY, Of Coronado, over the
head with revolver. Ezra Loomis tried to
stop the quarrel, and received bullet from
Cotter's revolver. The shooting then became
general, and resulted as follows: William
Pains and Charles Cotter, both of Leoti, were
Instantly killed; Emmett Dimming, Frank
Jeness, David johnson, and Albert Bovey all
from Leoti, were fatally wounded. Frank
Lilley, Charles Loou,is, and Ezra Loouiis, all
from Coronado, were slightly wounded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

Agents of the Interior Department have
just succeeded in buying from the Indian
tribes of Montana the greater part of the
enormous reservation which covers the
northern half of the Territory, and which
has greatly delayed its development.
Something more than 17,5O0,O0O acres
will thus be thrown open for public set
Element, and, as it is said to be very de-
sirable country, there is no doubt that it
will soon be occupied.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

Her Won Schafle, formerly the Austrian
cabinet minister, has gone in for war
statistics. He says war between France
and Germany would cost $4,000, 600, 600.
If our countries Russia, France
and Germany-fought, he says the bill
would be $4,000, 100000, and he also
thinks European war would bring uni
versal bankruptcy, which seems reason
able, considering his figures.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

A visitor to havana says he failed to
discover the boasted beauty of the Cuban
women, of which so much is heard. They
all have large, handsome, melancholy
dark eyes, but their complexion is hidden
beneath thick plaster of powder. There
seem to be no handsome old ladies.
Cuban beauty does hot last long. Toget
the staying article the boys must come to
this locality.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
The Emperor of China insists on

The Emperor Of China insists on hav-
ing bears paws, antelopes' tails, ducks
tongues, torpedo eels' eggs, camel's hump,
monkeys lips, carps' tails and marrow
bones served on his table every day in the
year. Then, according to the facetious
Burlington Free Press, he drops of to
sleep, and dreams that he is shooting
down q 4,OOO-foot toboggan slide, with
fifty-pound weight on his stomach.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

The United States Mint at Philadel-
phia has secured counterfeit $3.50 gold
piece of 1852, for which it has been in
quest for years in order to complete its
cabinet. It contains only twenty-seven
cents worth of gold, yet its weight is
that of the real article to a hair, its size
is the same with the exception that the
genuine coin is somewhat thinner in the
center, and it has the ring of the true
metal
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

Owing to the fact that the mints OF
the country have stopped the manufacture
of gold dollars these coins are command
ing premium-in some instances OF
twenty-five cents. The manufacture OF
$3.50 gold pieces has also been stopped,
and these command a premium of five
nor rent
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

THE approaching ninetieth anniversary Of
the birth Of Emperor William Of Germany,
will be observed with unusual ceremony by
the Austrian court. A State dinner will be-
given in honor Of the event, and the entire
staff Of the Germany Embassy will be invited
to attend.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

A REMARKABLE wedding in Salt Lake City
the other day was that Of Hong Hop, q
Chinese merchant Of that city, who has abb
iured pagc.isrn, connected himself with the
Congregational Church and esPoused young
EngIishwoman who was recently imported as
q prospective Mormon bride.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

The 18th of May is the date irrevocably
fixed for the sale of the French crown jewels.
They will be on view for month before the
auction in the Pavilion de Flore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23

There are now on the pension rolls of
the war of 1912 only 2,945 surviving
pensioners, while there are 1929 sur
viving widows of pensioners. This fur
nishes another convincing proof that
widows, like spinsters, never grow old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-23
Sketch of Mr.. Becchcr's Career.

Sketch or Mf. Bcccher'S career.
Henry Ward Beecher was the third son of
Rev. Lyman Beecher, and was born at Litch-
field Conn, June "a, 1918, and is therefore in
his 74th year. His father was one of the most
distinguished Congregational clergymen and
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-06-11
HOW SEA CAPTAINS ger RICH.
They have the sIop Ghosts aud Com-
missions rs Well Rs Their salaries

II Is often source OF wonder how 81
many ship captains amass large for
tunes. buill palatial residences, and
settle down, after lilo Of hardship
and exposure. as the soers and prophets
of their native villages. To b. sure.
since the days OF high freights and vast
profits Of tue East India trade, when a
vessel frequently paid for herself In one
voyage. fewer opportunities are afford
ell TO owners aud captains TO accumu'
late with the rapid " Of former days.
Still there are methods by which the
crafty commander of the ship is en-
abled to pick up few stray dollars.
The law prov DIES that the CAPTAIN Oi
every ship shall provide "slOp chest. "
containing boots. Oilskins socks, I'M
derelOthing ETC., 10 BIZ sold 10 the sai-
lors, including goodly supply Of to-
bacco. The law also provides that the
profits Of the captain shalt b, limited To
ten per cent. This. however. Is rarely
enforced. and the captain dspOses Of
tobacco that costs 80 cents per pound
for IS cents. 81, aud often 81 30. The
other contents OF the slOp. chest are also
dolcd out to the sailors, with whom j,
is \ case Of HobsOns's choice, nt enor.
nous profits TO the captains pocket.
Capt ans, also. have peculiar fond.
ness for commissions. and when lyng
at port the butcher. the ship chandler.
and the bumboatman all willingly agree
10 pay over certain percentage Of the
money received from the ship for the
sake Of obtaining the trade. Money
has to be hired 10 meet the bills; and
here. too, the inevitable commission
jiugles in the pocket Of the master Of the
ship. at sea an autOcrat. on shore an
object of adnlation. Vessels in dis.
tress are often oblge to hire large
sums Of money to meet the expenses OF
repairing, and part Of the interest paid
and the large bosses OF tho advances
find their way into the ever open peck
eli Of the crafty mar ner.
As an illustration. the writer was on
board ship. the second mate OF which
was 10 be discharged NJ \ fore gn port.
The captain, in making up the accounts
ready TO b. submitted TO the consul.
found that he had been charging the
mate IS cents per pound for tObae-
co. Those fellows on shore will get
all his money, anyhow. " said lie, and
| reckon | might as well haze part u
IT," Accordingly tobacco was entered
in the bill IT 81 per pound. aud The
other items Of the bill were increased
in like proportion.
From this short account II will Be
seen that captains still have oppOrtu.
mites to make little money ION tbs
outside. Tie amounts made by some
by smuggling soon enable them to re-
tire from the sca aud I've life Of case.
-BOsiOH ddrerli5sr.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-06-11
Origin Of Hydrophobia.

OEiSth VI HguIDphODll-
The interesting aud important re-
searches Of Pasteur into the nature anG
causation Of tho i seasc commonly
known rs hydrophobia, says The Nsz
Orleans Feay,Hs, have doubtless re.
suited in establishing the existence Of
specific bacterial organisms as Ia,
direct cause OF the disorder. but there
are no definite facts as to the circum.
stances under which these germs orgia
ate. Among the hunters and trapper,
in the frontier regions ot Americt
there Is general belief that hydropho
bin originated primarily in the bile 81 .
skunk, Of the order mephitis. accord.
| ing TO the naturalists These hunters,
many OF whom have been close and
accurate observers, declare that the
saliva Of this animal at all times pos.
sesses specific poison which communi
Gates to any living creature bitten By II
the germs Of hydroyhobia, and thai
this disease originates in no other
manner. The skunk Is at times extreme
" pugnac:ous, and will fight iicrcely
otten fssiailipg men. dogs. and other
animals, without provocation. FrO.v
its bite bydrophobia, it Is claimed. il
communicated TO other animals, and
in that way the disease is disseminated.
Dogs are more apt to be bitten than
are other animals, aud as a CONSEQUENCE
the disease has become associated with
them in all countries.
There are few animals more widely
distributed over the globe than are the
several varieties Of mcphitis, and the,
are by no means uncommon In all tho
older settled districts. Wherever there
are patches of tlicket or few dozer
acres of timber land there the skunk
can find hiding place Il would be
worth while for medical scientists e
examine the saliva Of this somewhat
notorious little creature for the Origina,
bacteria OF hYdrophobia.
HydrOphob is theme OF mysteri.
Gus and peculiar interest, and in Til.
connection the following account OF nm
occurrence which recently took place
near Uvalde Tex, Is given as taken
from q late issue oil, The Galveston NeUs:
Mr., George Maule. who moved Out
Of town fortnight since 10 Spring
creek, had one OF his little children run
down by mad fox. The little girl saw
the fox and was running toward the
house when she fell and was run over
by the fox. Fortunately she was no
bitten. The fox ran into. the yard and
attacked Mr.. Maule after he had carried
his daughter in the house, but was kill
cd with rocks at the hands OF the frigh.
tened. father. A horse was bitten by q
mad fox on the Pullman pond. about
ten miles above here, about two weeks
ago. The horse was seen biting him.
self and acting strangely, and IN few
minutes ran over high plufr and was
dashed into a sbapeless mass at tie
bottom"
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-06-11
NOT as WILL

Rlindfolacd and nlouc stand,
With unknown thresholds on each handi
The darkness dcepcns as ! Erope-
Afraid 30 fear. afraid 10 hope;
Yet this one thing learn 70 know
Zach day more surely as ] 90
That doors are opened, WAYS are made,
Burdens are lifted or are laid
By some great law unseen and stih
Uufathomed purpose 10 tulhlb
"Not aa Will.
Blindfolded and alone wait;
Loss seems too bitter, gain too latci
Too heavy burdens Ia the load,
And too few helpers on the road;
Audjoy Is weak and grief Is strong,
And Years and days 50 long, 50 longs
Yet this one thing learn 20 know
Each dav more surely as / go.
That | am glad the good and III
By changeless law are ordered still,
mot as | will"
ssNot as willln the sound grows sweet
Each time my lips the worls repeat;
ssNot as will, y the darkness feels
More safe than light when this thought steals
Like whispered voice TO calm and bleSa
al unrest aud all loneliness.
sNot as will, y because the One
Who loved us first aud last has gone
Before us on the road, and still
For us must all bis love fulhll-.
Not as l will.n
--Helsa Hast Jackson.